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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My oldest two kids played travel soccer year round. Youngest is born in December and wanted to an after school activity with his friends. He didn't want to play with kids a grade older. So he never started soccer and now plays other sports. I see several younger siblings on my kids travel teams who decided not to play and/or families decided it just wasn't worth it to do travel with younger set of kids. After this pandemic ends I think soccer will lose even more kids both in rec and travel. [/quote]

A kid with a December birthday has four months of kids the same grade as him on his team, usually more due to redshirting.  My kid’s age group at his club is pretty evenly divided between 2 grades[/quote]

I have 2 kids with late birthdays who play. One is on a top team at the club and she's the only one in her grade on that team. My other is on the 3rd team for this particular club and the team is pretty split with half being in each grade. I think the more competitive teams have older players[/quote]

But thousands if not millions more kids are playing rec where the “top” team is not an issue.  [/quote]

In rec kids want to play with their classmates, so it makes more sense to change cut off. It isn't such a big deal on older grades but to a preschooler kindergarten kids seem old. Or when you are in kindergarten many kids don't want to play with first graders. A lot of kids are never going to start playing soccer. The other option is to make A and B groups. So everyone born in 2015 Jan-June is 2015A and those born July-Dec are 2015B. [/quote]

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